Background: Mothers with premature infants face certain challenges such as uncertainty on how to deal with their infant's condition and care for it after discharge from neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Methods: A qualitative design was used to explain mothers' challenges after their infant's discharge from NICUs in Isfahan, Iran, 2015. Purposive sampling was adopted to interview the mothers...

This paper examines whether links between inside and outside directors have an impact on CEO compensation. Using a comprehensive sample of 22,074 directors for 3,114 firms, we develop a measure of the " back door " distance between each pair of directors on a company's board. Specifically, using the entire network of directors and firms, we compute the minimum number of other company boards tha...

BACKGROUND Motivational Interviewing is a well-known, scientifically tested method of counselling clients developed by Miller and Rollnick and viewed as a useful intervention strategy in the treatment of lifestyle problems and disease. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness of motivational interviewing in different areas of disease and to identify factors shaping outcomes. DESIGN OF STUDY A syst...

BACKGROUND Deficits in the transfer of information between inpatient and outpatient physicians are common and pose a patient safety risk. This is particularly the case for vulnerable populations such as patients with end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis. These patients have unique and complex health care needs that may not be effectively communicated on standard discharge summaries, which...

This paper investigates the impact of social ties on the effectiveness of boards of directors. When the CEO and a number of directors belong to the same social networks, the CEO is less likely to be dismissed for poor performance. The results are robust to different measures of performance and networks, consistent after controlling for CEO ability, and not due to connected boards’ superior info...

This study tested whether differences in cannabis cessation 3 months after a single session of Motivational Interviewing (MI) may be attributable to fidelity to MI. All audio-recordings with necessary 3-month follow-up data (n=75) delivered by four individual practitioners within a randomised controlled trial (RCT) were used. Participants were weekly or more frequent cannabis users aged 16-19 y...

CONTEXT Residency directors require myriad skills to perform their jobs efficiently. However, many residency directors receive no training prior to obtaining their positions. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of the Residency Directors Residency Administration Program (RD RAP)--a 1-year fellowship training program for Ohio osteopathic residency directors sponsored by the Ohio Universit...

To describe how patients die in hospital, 370 patients (age >18 years; in hospital for>24 hours) who died on the general wards of 40 Italian hospitals were assessed. Differences between patients whose death was expected and patients whose death was unexpected were evaluated. Data on treatments and care in proximity of death were collected after interviewing the nurse responsible for the patient...

This paper selects 372 companies in the US S&P 500 from 2013 to 2017 as a sample, and uses empirical research methods test relationship between corporate board size performance. The results show that there is negative correlation of directors performance; after dividing sample into high-tech non-high-tech industries, this more prominent field. After classifying according parity number direc...